FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet

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Post by somethingnew » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 6:05 AM UTC

FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet
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Re: FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet

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Post by Murk » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

As a mostly single person at the moment I cannot realistically use the 120Mb/s bandwidth that's available down my fiber internet connection.

It's hard to see a family soak up that bandwidth up either. Better latency and jitter would be beetter for my purposes, but no-one cares about that.

Re: FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet

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Post by jgeorge » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

Murk wrote: post #2

As a mostly single person at the moment I cannot realistically use the 120Mb/s bandwidth that's available down my fiber internet connection. It's hard to see a family soak up that bandwidth up either. Better latency and jitter would be beetter for my purposes, but no-one cares about that.

FWIW, I pay dearly for 6Mb/s where I live, rarely get above 4Mb/s out of it, and can regularly consume that if some streaming video is running.